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    is highly renowned and controversial in the art world Jason Dodge is an American contemporary artist who was born in 1969‚ in Newton‚ Pennsylvania (US) and Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian contemporary artist who was born in 1960 in Padua‚ Italy. Dodge had 6 full years of contemporary art education compared to Cattelan who had an informal and self directed contemporary art education. Both Artists moved away from their home countries‚ Dodge to Berlin‚ Germany and Cattelan to New York‚ USA.

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    Ray Bradbury puts motifs to represent and show the audience hints for what is going to happen. In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ Bradbury‚ they live in a society they live is against the law to read books and use your imagination. Bradbury uses motifs. Motifs are symbols that are repeated throughout the story. It shows objects represent things. For example he uses fire‚ mirrors‚ and both alive and death. Bradbury used quite of few motifs. But why does he use them? I think he uses them to show the reads

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    The 5th Wave‚ was full of motifs. First it was the Teddy Bear‚ then it was her Cell Phone that doesn’t work anymore‚ and finally it was the word Survive. I know the two first word s make total sense but the last one the word Survive‚ it seems as if doesn’t belong. But in reality the motifs in the story they mean so much more than living and a distant memory. The teddy bear that Cassie is always carrying is not even hers. So how does this even connect to the story? Well it was her little brothers

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    Analysis of ‘Portrait of Mother III’ by David Hockney. David Hockney painted his mother many times after studying art at the Bradford school of art. I am not sure that this specific painting provides a story but maybe the whole group of paintings of his mother at different times and in different styles does tell a story. I think that he wanted to show how people aged and how you can paint or draw them in different styles of materials. His mother is the main focus of this series of portraits. The image

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    play‚ Cupid is a motif. A motif symbolizes something‚ and Cupid is supposed to symbolize the erratic love that the teens feel in this drama‚but some of the characters take it the wrong way and think of it a bit differently. Romeo thinks Cupid uses a bow that love is something that you can conquer‚ but it is something that is mutually felt between two people. So in the play‚ Cupid actually makes love seem violent and like something that you can take from other people. Cupid is a motif in the play‚ but

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    A Hunger Artist: THEME What is A Hunger Artist? Normally‚ I would make a lame joke and say that it’s an artist who is hungry. OK‚ well it sounded better in my head. It’s about a man‚ an artist who fasts in a cage. You can look at the story from the point of view of society. You can think about the story relationship to “hunger”‚ and you can rationalize why the Artist put himself through this whole absurd ordeal. The Hunger Artist has to be a troubled man for “society” to stand there and basically

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    Pen Portraits-The Pearl Juana- Juana is a very young lady and she has just had her first child. In the starting of the book‚ she is very calm and does not speak much. Towards the end of the book she is a lot more aggressive and speaks more than she used to. Her attitude changes and she stays by Kino whatever happens. An example is when Kino has killed a man; she helps him hide the dead body instead of telling anyone of the crime. Steinbeck also writes that when she carries out her way of curing

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    Art De Anza College Fall 2010 Artist Binh Danh One of the most renowned emerging artists of the contemporary art since 1945‚ Binh Danh was born 9 October 1977‚ and this Vietnamese-born photographer and artist is most renowned for opening up the enthralling method of printing directly on plant leaves. As in the case of several celebrated artists‚ Binh Danh also attempted to convey the sanctified visions of his experience which are formed

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    Motif Analysis: Blood Blood is everywhere in Macbeth. The very first scene of the play starts out with a captain speaking of the blood spilled at the battle between the Scots and the Norwegians. Those this is the first instance of blood; blood plays a much bigger part in Macbeth. Blood stands for the guilt that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel throughout the play. While Lady Macbeth is planning the murder of King Duncan‚ she calls upon the spirits of murder to‚ "make thick my blood; / Stop up the

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    In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses the motif sleep and dreams Is used to convey contrasting moods. In Macbeth the motif sleep and dreams is used to convey a mood of suspicion. “And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers. /Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ gives a response” (2.1.8-11). In this scene Banquo laments to himself that something feels wrong‚ Suspicion has encompassed Banquo. While he can keep these negative feelings at bay in the day‚ at night he struggles

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